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Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Monday, August 3, 2020

PRIDE 2

Pride has been defined as a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction in an achievement or accomplishment, or in someone else or something else. However, it is also described as conceit, egotism, vanity, vainglory all over one’s own appearance or status in life and not just something that’s been accomplished.

It is an inwardly directed emotion that can easily offend others and carries with it a connotation that displays an inflated sense of one’s own worth or personal status and typically makes one feel a sense of superiority over others and can easily make someone look condescendingly at others. It’s important to note that this pride is different from what we feel for our loved ones.

Proverbs 17:6 “Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents.” (NCV) Psalm 10:4 “The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead.” (NLT) Proverbs 8:13 “All who fear the Lord will hate evil. Therefore, I hate pride and arrogance, corruption and perverse speech.” (NLT) Pride is one of the sins God hates. In James 4:6 we see that God resists the proud – He resists them from their advancements and breakthroughs, He wages war with them.

Pride is the opposite of humility. Proverbs 11:2 “When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.” (RSV). A haughty man's end is always shameful, however, when a man chooses to be meek he attracts the wisdom of God. Ecclesiastes 7:8 “Something completed is better than something just begun; patience is better than too much pride.” (CEV) see also Isaiah 2:11 (CJB).

We will either humble ourselves or God will do it for us and one is much more painful than the other. Isaiah 13:11 “I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the mighty.’ (NLT)
 

Confession: I declare in the name of Jesus, I am a success, Greater is He that’s in me than he that’s in the world. The Greater One resides in me. I’m a success I am not a failure; I am the glory of God! I am a job provider.                                        
 

Further Readings:  Proverbs 13:10; Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.  

Isaiah 13:11; And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible

Read through the Bible: Judges 17 & Acts 21